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If you’re a small-to-midsized business (SMB), you know that you’re operating in a fast-paced, ever-changing business environment. Customers want their demands met instantly, and increasing competition multiplies the pressure you’re under. If you can’t deliver, you can be sure somebody else will.
Fortunately, the technology landscape is changing the way you do business. Mobility, social media, and Big Data are leveling the playing field and making it possible for companies like yours to access more sophisticated technology, reach bigger audiences, target their messages, and innovate in their offerings. Yet nothing has changed the landscape so much as the cloud.

VMware surveyed approximately 200 senior IT leaders at enterprise, commercial, and SMB organizations worldwide to shed light on the evolving role of IT. In the face of increased pressures, IT oganizations are needing to accelerate development and delivery of applications that power faster time-to-market for the business.
In this paper, we chart the progress of CIOs, CTOs and other IT leaders and discuss the top challenges they face in building more nimble, responsive organizations to support their business objectives. We also show how data centre modernization can help organizations deliver the agility required to meet ever-increasing demands for faster innovation through a flexible, service-oriented IT model that employs both private and public clouds.
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FICO, a financial services provider, wanted to address small-to-medium business (SMB) and midmarket customer requests for solutions without on-premise installation. To transition from an on-premise model to a cloud- and services-based infrastructure, FICO chose to build an OpenStack® cloud using Red Hat® solutions, including OpenShift by Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® OpenStack Platform. As a result, FICO generated US$10 million in sales to new customers, reduced solution time to market by 50%, and lowered storage and overall infrastructure costs.

Join Mitel and industry experts on this webcast and learn how Mitel is helping SMBs deliver a seamless experience for their mobile customers through cloud. Topics to be covered in this event:
• Why today’s technology fails to deliver the experience you want for your customers
• What you should expect and receive from your cloud communication provider now and in the future
• The impact of the mobile consumer on small and medium business customer engagement strategies
• How consumer expectations have changed the workforce
Moderator: Elliot Markowitz, Director, Content Marketing Services, Madison Logic

In this study, we begin with a brief overview of current SMB requirements and challenges. Next we examine how the cost and operational benefits delivered by cloud-based business application solutions have propelled these solutions into mainstream business and technology practices.

Join Mitel and industry experts on this webcast and learn how Mitel is helping SMBs deliver a seamless experience for their mobile customers through cloud. Topics to be covered in this event:
Why today’s technology fails to deliver the experience you want for your customers
What you should expect and receive from your cloud communication provider now and in the future
The impact of the mobile consumer on small and medium business customer engagement strategies
How consumer expectations have changed the workforce

In this white paper we explore how smaller contractors can now have access to robust and compliant solutions via the cloud, thus removing the IT and cost barriers that previously kept these solutions out of reach.

In this case study from Ombud Open Research, you will learn how US Bank is using electronic signature technology to streamline account openings and SMB loans. With e-signatures deployed across more than 3,000 branches, US Bank is leveraging both the Silanis on-premise e-signature solution and the Silanis cloud e-signature service for different processes. As a result, they have achieved operational efficiencies, improved customer experience and increased top-line revenue. The bank is currently e-signing 460,000 documents each week – a number that will continue to grow as US Bank’s initial implementation of electronic signatures is currently being re-purposed across the entire organization.

There’s a big change happening in how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) think about IT security as they take advantage of mobility and the cloud. They’re recognizing the need for mobile device management (MDM), cloud security, and the importance of choosing the right devices.

Unified Communications offers a host of benefits to SMBs and large enterprises alike. But every organization needs to determine whether a premises-based UC solution or a cloud-based hosted service is the best fit for its own situation. This decision guide takes you through a list of important considerations to help you do just that.

In this paper, the SMB Group examines different cloud computing models, discusses the types of requirements that each can best address, and consider what midmarket businesses should look for in a cloud solutions provider.

Today, the ERP reality is very different, and much more beneficial, for smaller firms. A variety of options have emerged to address and overcome the key concerns and obstacles of the past. Learn about the drivers that force these executives to address an ERP decision, the considerations involved in those decisions, and critical implementation factors once an ERP decision is made.

Download this report to read critical feedback from 200 IT managers in both SMB and enterprise organizations - find out how they are addressing challenges of cloud computing, especially cloud computing security issues.

The cloud isn't just for startups and enterprises. Typically, businesses with 20-1,000 employees do not have huge IT teams or budgets. As result, understanding the potential of the Cloud hasn’t been easy and figuring out the benefits of the Cloud can be a huge challenge.
The FierceCIO Midmarket and SMB Guide to Cloud Computing sponsored by Digital Realty | Telx and accompanying webinar shows how you can benefit from the Cloud, too.

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